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Boost your morning with classical music

Tom McKinney presents Radio 3’s Breakfast show live from Salford. With birdsong, Bach Before 7 and the best in classical music. You can contact the show by emailing 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

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Music Played

  • Florence Price

    Song for Snow

    Performer: Chloe Flower. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Jessica Cottis.
    • Song for Snow.
    • Popsical Music Group.
    • 1.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Le Carnaval des animaux; no.13; Le Cygne (The Swan)

    Performer: Laura van der Heijden. Music Arranger: Paul Cassidy. Ensemble: Brodsky Quartet.
    • Golden Oldies – More Favourite Encores.
    • Chandos.
    • 7.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No 29 in A major, K 201 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Christopher George. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Symphonies; SCO; Sir Charles Mackerras.
    • Linn.
    • 2.

  • Gustav Holst

    Mercury, the Winged Messenger (The Planets, Op 32)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.
    • London Philharmonic Orchestra - Holst The Planets - Vladimir Jurowski Conductor.
    • LPO.
    • 3.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Organ Sonata no.4 BWV.528 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.
    • Bach for the Home.
    • UME - Global Clearing House.
    • 179.

  • Claude Debussy

    Danse sacree et danse profane

    Performer: Lavinia Meijer. Ensemble: Amsterdam Sinfonietta.
    • Voyage.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 13-14.

  • Joe Hisaishi

    Merry-Go-Round of Life (Howl's Moving Castle)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Joe Hisaishi.
    • DG.

  • Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    L' Amant anonyme (Overture)

    Orchestra: Tafelmusik. Director: Jeanne Lamon.
    • TMK.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Morning (Peer Gynt Suite no.1, Op.46)

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo Berglund.
    • Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites 1 & 2: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Berglund.
    • EMI.
    • 1.

  • Franz Liszt

    La Campanella

    Performer: Lang Lang.
    • Liszt - My Piano Hero.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 2.

  • Nancy Dalberg

    Scherzo for string orchestra, Op 6

    Orchestra: Danish National Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Frans Rasmussen.
    • DA CAPO.

  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Schwanenlied

    Performer: Eva Oertle. Performer: Consuelo Giulianelli.
    • Lake Reflections - Music for Flute & Harp.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 11.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Romance No 2 in F major, Op 50

    Performer: James Ehnes. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • ONYX.

  • Johann Strauss II

    The Blue Danube

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Riccardo Muti.
    • Neujahrskonzert 2025 / New Year's Concert 2025 / Concert du Nouvel An 2025.
    • Sony Music Entertainment UK Ltd.
    • 8.

  • Franz Berwald

    Septet in B flat major (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Wigmore Soloists.
    • Beethoven and Berwald: Septets.
    • BIS.
    • 203.

  • Alexander Glazunov

    Wedding Procession Op.21

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Glazunov: The Symphonies.
    • Orfeo.
    • 501.

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Sonata a 8 sopra 'Sancta Maria' (Vespro della Beata Vergine)

    Ensemble: Pygmalion. Conductor: Raphaël Pichon.
    • Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 203.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Concert Piece No 1 in F minor, Op 113

    Music Arranger: Rainer Schottstädt. Performer: Daniel Ottensamer. Performer: Andreas Ottensamer. Ensemble: Wiener Virtuosen.
    • The Clarinotts.
    • DG.
    • 1-3.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Piano Concerto no.3 in D minor Op.30 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Yuja Wang. Orchestra: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    The Magic Flute (Overture)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Edward Elgar

    Bavarian Dance No 1

    Performer: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Performer: James Judd.
    • Elgar - Orchestral Minatures.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Morning (The Times of Day)

    Singer: Monika Mauch. Choir: Basel Madrigalists. Orchestra: L’arpa festante. Conductor: Fritz Näf.
    • Telemann: Die Tageszeiten.
    • Carus.
    • 002.

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  • Fri 16 Jan 202606:30
    BBC Radio 3